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WCDT Strips 3281 to 3285 (8-12 August 2016)
Storel:
Anyway, back to discussing the comic.
"Barn fart" looks to me like a typo for or mishearing of the phrase "brain fart". What do you think?
BenRG:
Poll Results!
1. Alt-Hanners at The Secret Bakery - 17 (37%)
2. Barmaid at The Horrible Revelation (Victorian Brun FTW) - 11 (23.9%)
=3. Delivery-person (maybe for TSB or CoD, if Dora wants to go in that direction) - 7 (15.2%)
=3. Concession stand clerk at The Fighting Arena - 7 (15.2%)
5. Dormitory night receptionist at the dorm used by both Clinton and Emily at UMass - 2 (4.3%)
=6. Freelance House-cleaner - 1 (2.2%)
=6. Emily's new apprentice at Coffee of Doom - 1 (2.2%)
X Counter Staff at Smif College canteen - Interaction with Marten, Tai and Claire - 0 (0%)
X Other (Please Specify) - 0 (0%)
A pretty clear result this week. However, I can't help wonder if some readers may have missed a clue. Brun wishes to emulate Kiki, but Kiki didn't work behind a counter! Hers was a delivery service! :wink:
((New Policy: Any result that gets no votes in my polls is scrubbed from the list as shown above))
Morituri:
"Barn Fart" looks like a variation on "Brain Fart", yeah. Not necessarily a mishearing, but if not, then an amusing phrase that "Brain Fart" can remind her of.
I do this all the time. Whenever I hear "Ghost in the machine" I think "Goats in the machine" and smile. Whenever I hear "Deus Ex Machina" I think "Deus Sex Machina" and that would be a really cool name for a line of religious-themed adult toys. Whenever I hear "Cowboy" or "Cowgirl", I repunctuate it in my mind with a comma after "Cow," and it's surprising how often the sentence still makes sense. I'm always alert for these near-misses, because sometimes they're very amusing thoughts that I wouldn't have thought otherwise. It's all part of a grand language game I play inside my mind.
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: Storel on 13 Aug 2016, 22:07 ---Anyway, back to discussing the comic.
"Barn fart" looks to me like a typo for or mishearing of the phrase "brain fart". What do you think?
--- End quote ---
In all truth, I can never hear an expletive with the word 'barn' in it without thinking of May saying 'fuckbarn.' I've loved the word since I first read it, so much I've considered asking Jeph for permission to use it in things I write.
Method of Madness:
My favorite expletive is fuckpants. I think Will Ferrell said it in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but I'm not sure. He might have said fuck beans.
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